THE SUPREME COURT HAS CANCELLED LEASES OF 88 GOA MINES, BUT WHAT’S LEFT OF THE LAND THE BIG CAT CALLS HOME? Optimists will tell you that you must be open to ‘negotiation’ when it comes to protecting the environment. Don’t see things in black and white, that’s passé. You need to be more ‘nuanced’, learn […]

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Whether the government will track an individual is a secondary thing, but to have the architecture, which can build electronic trails of a person through cross-linking databases, is dangerous beyond imagination Hriday ran from pillar to post with his pregnant wife and daughter to get an Aadhaar card. Being a migrant worker from Bihar, he […]

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AAP government is finally installing nearly 2 lakh CCTV camera mapping every corner of Delhi in its width and length. Will it be a game-changer for women’s safety? Delhi has not forgotten Nirbhaya’s death, yet five years after the young paramedic’s gruesome rape and murder, the city’s crime statistics are sobering. An infant was recently […]

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Kashmir issue is complex. Many players, mostly across the border, don’t want peace in the valley. People at large are the worst sufferer Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, asserted, yet again, earlier this week, that India and Pakistan should talk, as ‘there’s no alternative.’ And while she gives this message of peace, she’s acutely […]

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Festivals like Durga Puja enable the youth to explore the world, gain more confidence and maturity. they lead to more gender, social and economic empowerment “Let’s meet tonight. I will be with my parents, but they will go home soon. Will ping you then,” texted Maitri (name changed) to her friends’ WhatsApp group. She is […]

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Annoyed by the regular text messages from banks and mobile service providers to link Aadhaar with the accounts and SIMs? Scared if they will freeze your deposited money, and block the mobiles? Confused because Ravi Shankar Prasad, the information and technology, and law minister, tweets, “No need to link Aadhaar with all these facilities”? In […]

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From removing LGBTQ page from the white house website to rescinding anti-discriminatory laws in education and employment, trump has changed his tune in one year On July 26, US President Donald Trump tweeted that transgender citizens will no longer be accepted in the US military to avoid the burden of “the tremendous medical costs and […]

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Patriot presents a ground report on how able the capital is to deal with the needs of the differently-abled citizens On the whole, the Indian society has learnt several lessons to socially accept and absorb the people with various disabilities. The terminology changed, and they are called differently-abled. For the nearly 27 million such people, […]

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